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Don't always meet your Heroes
3 years ago
Thee Marshmallow lizard hath speaketh! _________________________________________
I've met my Heroes. Nearly all of them made me regret it. Artists I was inspired by.. the only problem was I wanted to befriend them. Which of course is never a mutual thing..
I'm no Hero.
I've made enemies by accident and on purpose. I'm not proud of either outcomes.
I've disappointed a lot of people.
And I know damn well sure I'm no better than the Heroes I looked up to.
If it taught me anything it showed me that we're no different than each other.
That seeing someone as a Hero can so quickly snap to a Villian over even the smallest thing.
When in reality if we saw each other as mutual and not less or better than the other feels a lot more healthy to start off on.
I'm not saying it's bad to glorify folks..
What I can say after everything I've experienced thus far is that placing a stranger you never met on a pedestal is not the best way to approach them.
Also i already know that Most Famous Artists are very much either Friendly to everybody, or just want your Money (aka Commissioning Prices over 1000 Bucks for 1 Picture).
So best thing is:
1.st Dont put Peopel into High places, most of them are Bad Influences/Peopel.
2.nd Only put peopel in High places that have been Friends whit you for atleast over 5-10 Years Already, since then you know they Truely mean it by saying that they are your Friend.
3.rd ???
4.th Profit <3
my strongest memory was of most of "heros" changed dramatically one day or year around back then into things I very didn't like... The others were as you mentioned xD but I guess that's a good thing that, they too are simply normal.
Everyone grows or reflects thier life differently to others and themselves. ^.=.^
... I just wish more people would be more relaxed or flexible with some of their amazing things.
I’ve made this same mistake as well, and I regret it. Especially the part about placing your Heroes on a pedestal, and meeting them with this mindset fully applied. This will almost NEVER go well. It never did for me.
It also made me realize that no matter what skills and accomplishments someone else has acquired (which are often the things that made you glorify them in the first place), they are still Human.
It sounds funny to say, but when you glorify someone to such a high degree… you tend to forget that they are the same as you and everyone else: People. Not gods or Heroes.
This also reminds me of a post an artist wrote a few years ago. They said that it terrified them to know that some people not only look up to them, but some even glorified them. They said it themselves that they’re no different than anyone else. They built their skill, and just happened to make it big later on. They only wanted their fans to look at them equally, because it stressed them out when they tried to maintain that unrealistic image of a Hero.
As R-A-S-P said - it’s not necessarily a bad thing to glorify people… just don’t go around meeting your heroes with the full belief that they will be everything you imagined them to be.
Keyword: ‘imagined’.
I have known only two people I consider villainous. One was an actual sociopath who made an active choice not to try and curb the kind of behavior that causes. The other was simply the most selfish human being I have ever known.
In general, I would say this journal is decent advice.